{"id":578947,"date":"2026-05-11T23:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578947\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:58:08","slug":"inmate-released-in-error-could-now-be-abroad-high-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578947\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate released in error could now be abroad, High Court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr Justice Hayden said at a hearing on Monday that, following his release, Adeyeye “strolled about” the London area and “had a very nice dinner” and “quite a lot of drink” at a local pub, before transferring thousands of pounds to others from a bank account.<\/p>\n

It is believed Adeyeye may have travelled to Spain the following day, all before prison staff contacted the Metropolitan Police on the afternoon of 24 April.<\/p>\n

Mr Justice Hayden said: “The public is entitled to expect far better than this.”<\/p>\n

Last June, the same judge ruled that Adeyeye, a dual British-Nigerian national, abducted Laurys from his mother, Claire N’Djosse, in France and took him to the African country via the UK.<\/p>\n

The news of Adeyeye’s release comes after a former asylum seeker who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl was mistakenly freed from HMP Chelmsford in October.<\/p>\n

The manhunt for Hadush Kebatu cost police forces more than \u00a3150,000, a review found<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Data published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) last month showed that 179 inmates were wrongly released between April 2025 and March 2026.<\/p>\n

The MoJ said it was working with police to recapture Adeyeye, and was investing up to \u00a382m to drive down accidental releases, adding: “We inherited a prison system in crisis after years of underinvestment, which has resulted in unacceptable rises in release in errors.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Justice Hayden said at a hearing on Monday that, following his release, Adeyeye “strolled about” the London…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-578947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}